Educating for personal knowing requires an approach to learning that is based in direct sensory experience. The materials, tools and processes of creative art activity nurture the development of vital sensory experience at every stage of the life cycle. Through imagination, sensory experience is transformed into self-knowledge and conceptual thought: together they illuminate the processes of all personal knowing.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.
References
1.
ClarkK. (1954). The moment of vision.Romanes Lecture, Sheldonian Theater, Oxford.
2.
CobbE. (1977). The ecology of imagination in childhood.New York: Columbia University Press.
3.
EinsteinA. (1949). Autobiographical notes (P. A. Schilpp, Trans.). In SchilppP. A. (Ed.), Albert Einstein: Philosopher-scientist.New York: Tudor.
4.
EriksonE. H. (1982). Psychoanalytic reflections of Einstein's centenary: Part 1. The victorious child. In HortonG., & ElkanaY (Eds.), Albert Einstein: Historical and cultural perspectives.Princeton: Princeton University Press.
5.
GravesP. L. (1980). The functioning fetus. In GreensonS. I., & PollockG. H. (Eds.), The course of life: Psychoanalytic contributions toward understanding personality development: Vol. I. Infancy and early childhood.Adelphi, MD: Mental Health Studies Center.
6.
HamiltonE. (1942). The Greek way.New York: Norton.
7.
JamesW. (1911). On vital reserves. NewYork: H. Holt.
8.
KochK. (1977). I never told anybody.New York: Random House.
9.
LangerS. K. (1957). Philosophy in a new key.Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
10.
LipsettL. (1979). The child in the world of tomorrow: A window into the future.Oxford, NY: Pergamon Press.
11.
LusseyranJ. (1963). And there was light.Boston: Little, Brown.
12.
NeedhamJ. (1956). Science and civilization in China (Vol. 2). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
13.
PestalozziJ. H. (1894). How Gertrude teaches her children.London: Allen & Unwin.
14.
PiagetJ. (1952). The origins of intelligence in children.New York: International Universities Press.
15.
ReadH. (1940). Annals of innocence and experience.London: Faber & Faber.
16.
UntermeyerL. (1949). The poetry and prose of Walt Whitman.New York: Simon & Schuster.
